Tag: kernel

This month’s Patch Tuesday update, set to go live in mere hours, looks like it come with a fix for the Windows kernel vulnerability that was reported by a Google researcher by the name of Tavis Ormandy.
Microsoft recently announced that it would be releasing seven different security bulletins as part of July’s Patch...

Windows Blue rumors continue to surface, and the latest is that the new update is expected to reach the RTM development stage in June, which puts it in line with the assumed August release date.
New information from various sources was gathered by The Verge, and according to them the Milestone Preview is said to come...

Last week there was a flurry of activity on blogs saying that the Windows Phone 8 platform would probably share a common kernel with the Windows 8 Client.
It was exciting because the potential benefits were huge – a common platform that enabled a shared experience across multiple Windows 8 platforms.
Well, not so...

Windows ME is not exactly remembered as the greatest version of Windows ever made. When this version comes to mind those who use it likely remember countless bugs, errors, and a dying DOS-based kernel that was just begging to retire.
I talked about how some people on the web have likened Windows 8 to ME, even though...

Another great catch by Windows8Italia.
They found a couple of XBOX related strings of code deep in the Windows 8 kernel.
XBOX_360_SYSTEM_CRASH
XBOX_360_SYSTEM_CRASH_RESERVED
These strings seem to be related to system error codes and are not present in Windows 7.
It is still unclear what this might mean.
What is...